On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:24:58 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:24:58 +0100 > From: Roy Marples <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/postinstall > To: Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > On 13/06/2019 09:00, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:17:29AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: > > > [...] > > > I've been using etcupdate for ages so I only ever really used > > > postinstall to fix "obsolete" and "catpages". etcupdate -a has some > > > kinks and may be we should concentrate on fixing those instead? > > > > I *never* used etcupdate, so for me it's better to have a working > > postinstall > > (I have a PR about it: install/52349, which may have been fixed by the > > recent change) > > I used etc-update once and accidently overwrote master.passwd > Never used it since, far too risky.
Well, updating your etc is risky. Handling of passwd/group (or rather lack of special handling for them) is probably the weakest part of etcupdate UX. -uwe
